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April 21, 2005

I've Been Experimenting with AJAX

I did a new installation of MXNA 2.0 last night. In addition to adding "Most Popular" views (check out the new menu at the top on the right), I've also been experimenting with AJAX. Each post has an "Email to a Friend" option under it. Click it and give it a try. It exposes an email form and sends your email without ever refreshing the page. I think it makes for an improved user experience, and works great with ColdFusion and, after some tweaks, the MXNA 2.0 framework. Expect to see more AJAX features rolled into MXNA 2.0 in the future.

Posted by cantrell at April 21, 2005 01:55 PM | References

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Could you do a show us the code you used to make the "Email to a Friend" work. I have read about it but I haven't seen anyone use it with CF yet.

Thanks

Posted by: Jeff Dopp at April 21, 2005 02:23 PM

christian,

if you dont mind, when you clean it up a bit (if its not already) can you give us a little detail on how you did it?

im having a time grasping the concept (i know what how its done) i just suck as javascript :)

thanks.
tony

Posted by: tony of the weeg clan at April 21, 2005 02:32 PM

Very nice! I'd like to see the "E-mail to a friend" button be a toggle, so that you can click on it again to remove the e-mail fields.

Posted by: Allen Varney at April 21, 2005 02:32 PM

Hey Christian, pretty nice. Great example fo ajax - clean and easy to follow just looking at your Js code.

I have another idea for you: How about adding a "bookmark with del.icio.us" button. That would allow you to add the link from any entry right into your del.icio.us bookmarks.

Keep up the great work!

Regards,
Rob

Posted by: Robert M. Hall at April 21, 2005 04:08 PM

looking forward to ...

Posted by: Philipp Cielen at April 21, 2005 08:19 PM

What is the staus of sourcce code availablity?

Posted by: Jim at April 22, 2005 09:17 AM

"What is the staus of sourcce code availablity?"

For now, you can get all the source just by viewing it in your browser. None of it is obfuscated or difficult to find. I'll publish it shortly, but for now, feel free to steal. :)

Posted by: Christian Cantrell at April 23, 2005 03:45 AM